Posts Tagged ‘the hat junkie’
Headbands, Halifax and Hat News
Hello! I have a new inanimate best friend. Meet my Minnie May headband. I made a batch of 12 and at 5:45 a.m, headbands in tow, I will be hitting the road for the Halifax Brewery Market, tomorrow (Saturday) from 8-1. Yes, I mentioned the time for the purposes of sympathy. Next week I will…
Read MoreA Life of Flowers and a Class to Celebrate it.
As I approach one more rotation around the sun, it occurs to me that I have spent so much of it in the creation of fabric flowers. One of my earliest childhood memories is picking dandelions on the hillside of a busy Montreal street, certain that I had discovered gold. Seeing that yellow hill was…
Read MorePretty Little Things For a Gentler World
Hello, my lovely hat junkies, Guess what I did? I ordered in beautiful sewing notions from Merchant and Mills and listed them in my WEBSHOP. I have had this long standing dream of having a millinery and notions shop. I decided that if you want a dream to come true you actually need to do…
Read MoreA Pattern, a Podcast and PEI
Where to begin, where to begin? I have had a whirlwind month, summer….. season and I have so much to tell you, starting with my latest news. I finally published the knitting pattern for my Log Cabin Hat! I am so grateful to my friend, Micheline, who helped me with tech editing and graphic design.…
Read MoreSuccessful Summering and So Many Hats
Hello from the middle of summer. I am happy to report that I have been doing a pretty good job at carpe dieming. (Hope you don’t mind if I make up a verb here or there.) On a very good day, I have a batch of morning glory muffins baked (I mean, what else does…
Read MoreSeven Thousand Hats Later
Last month marked 30 years of making hats. That’s a whole lot of hats that I have put out there in the world. I don’t know the exact number, but I do know that I have used over 7000 labels. I’m just going to pause and think about that for a second….To celebrate, I will…
Read MoreMaking hats and Plans to Leave the House
Hello Everyone, Today I bring you all things joyful. I do, however, want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the kind and sympathetic comments on my last post. Sometimes the internet can be a vehicle for good. You really comforted me. But now let’s talk about hats and upcoming plans…
Read MoreA Hat Shop Minute
Hello, from pretty Lunenburg. As you can see from the above photo, I am open for business. I mustered up everything I learned about painting in Kindergarten and made an open sign. People often look confused when standing in my driveway trying to decide if they are in the right place or not. Hopefully, this…
Read MoreFade free Hats, Indigo Love and Smoke
Hello from smokey Nova Scotia. While many people to the west and east of me have lost their homes or have been evacuated due to the wild fires, life in Lunenburg has been relatively normal….other than wind directions sometimes causing bad air quality. This is a very small province, so it really isn’t possible to…
Read MoreSpring Has Sprung
Hello, hello, I just wanted to pop in here to let people know that Spring returned. Isn’t it amazing? How do those buds know to open? I was just beginning to feel forsaken by Mother Nature when the crocuses and daffodils started appearing. In Nova Scotia, one never fully puts their winter clothes away, but…
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